On 28 Jan 2005 at 2:01, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Jan 27, 2005, at 2:21 AM, d. collins wrote: > > >> For what it's worth, I guess my preference would be that the Finale > >> List archives remain google-able, but it's only a slight > >> preference. It's not something that I care about enough to lobby > >> for. > > > > Why Google, since it's possible to have searchable archives without > > making them public? > > Well, I suppose the answer to your question is that I like the idea of > them being public. In general, I think sharing of information is a > good thing, and Google is a better way of sharing with everyone. As > for privacy, I don't think of this list as being private at all; I > think of it as public. That is probably due to my extensive > experience with the Usenet and various Web-based forums, where > everything is surely very public.
I really agree with all of that. My only request of a public archive is that email addresses should be obfuscated so that spammers can't harvest them. If that can't be done, then no archive should be public. > But as I said before, it's not something I'm lobbying for. I'm happy > for the Finale archives to be stored or not stored however the > community as a whole prefers. I've barely ever used the archives, as I don't find the information in them to be helpful -- it's usually too dated, or the discussions too convoluted to follow after the fact. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
